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"Nikita" is getting reborn (9 p.m. EDT Thursday, CW).

However, executive producer Craig Silverstein insists that "this is not a rehash."

Best-selling author Andrew Morton became a household name after his biography of Princess Diana, "Diana: Her True Story," hit bookstores in the early '90s. After her death, he made public just how much she had collaborated with him. Since then, the former British tabloid journalist has written unauthorized biographies about Tom Cruise, Madonna and Monica Lewinsky.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - This fall children's television gets a new network -- The Hub, a joint collaboration between Discovery Networks and Hasbro toys, replaces Discovery Kids on Oct. 10 -- a refreshed, computer-animated "Thomas & Friends" on PBS and a new PBS Kids weekday series, "The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That," premiering Monday, Sept. 6.

Great new reads for teens abound, led by "Mockingjay," the final volume in "The Hunger Games" trilogy.

Here's a closer look at some of these books:

-- In "Mockingjay" (Scholastic, $17.99), author Suzanne Collins provides a fittingly unsettling ending to the wildly popular dystopian trilogy that began in 2008 with "The Hunger Games" and continued in last year's "Catching Fire."

In many ways, Archaia's "The Secret History Omnibus" ($34.95) is what I expected it to be -- but it also managed to surprise me.

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - "I was the worst ballplayer in the history of Little League," I told the crowd gathered in the cozy Bullpen Theater (capacity: 55) at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. "The only way I could get invited to the Hall of Fame was to write this book."

It was always a little frustrating to be in love with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. For every fabulous pop gem from the early years of surfing, cars and fun -- "I Get Around," "The Warmth of the Sun," "Be True to Your School," "Help Me, Rhonda," you name it -- there was just as much filler, throwaways like "Chug-a-Lug" or "Alley Oop."

Q: While watching an episode of "Wipeout" the other night and seeing someone's legs bent back behind their head, I got to wondering if the contestants have to sign a waiver that if they get hurt ABC is not liable.

-- Scott, 41, Canonsburg, Pa.

Rob Owen: Yes, anytime you are on a reality show, you have to sign a liability waiver.

An exercise in beating a dead horse as well as eating a dead horse (literally), "George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead" demonstrates that the metaphorical usefulness of the zombie genre pioneered by the titular auteur has reached a state of near rigor mortis, if not putrefaction.

Most movie lovers hail "Animal House" as the greatest college movie of all time.

So the film's fictional Faber College should be the greatest fictional university of all time, right? Not so fast.